Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-06-18
ITEMS OF NEWS.
Gathered from Many Sources
Containing the Latest Hap
penings and Doings.

Gathered from Many Sources
Containing the Latest Hap
penings and Doings.
Among CoIored People.
Mr.. j. III. Ransom, has been appointed
health officer for the third ward of
Chicago, ILL.,
Mr. James Harris, of Xenia, Ohis, has
invented fire escape ladder and
scafolding support.
Mr.. George w. Cook has been made
tutor of mathematics in Howard Uni
yersity at Washington, D. C.
Hon. WI. Boyd, a prominent color
ed politician of somerville, Tenn,, was
killed by lighting last Saturday.
Mr.. Jesse II. Ringold is Aid de Camp
on the staff of the governor OF Indiana
with the rank of first lieutenant.
The Colored State Teachers Associ-
alton OF Kentucky, will meet in annual
session at Danville, July 6, and 8.
Miss Lucy Bell has the distinction of
being the first colored girl to graduate
from the High School of Franklin, Ind.
Miss Dora Powell, colored, was vale
dictorian of her class in the South Bend,
Ind. High School commencement, re-
Gently.
Mr.. R. Bagby, of Indianapolis, Ind,
graduated from the law department of
Columbia University, Washington, d. C.
last week
At a recent meeting of the Board of
Trustees of the Ripley (Ohio) Institute
for the Blind, J. S. Ripley, colored
member, was elected president.
The sixty-seventh session of the New
England Conference of the A. M. E.
church, was held at Brooklyn, N. Y,
Bishop John NJ. Brown, DID,, DEL,
presiding.
The tWenty-fourth commencement Of
Wilberforce University was held on last
Thursday. Gov J. B. Foraker and
Hon. John Sherman addressed the
Alumni Association.
The degree of Phi. D. was conferred
upon Rev. j. w. E. Bowen, of Newark,
N. j., at the recent commencement of
the Boston University. He is the first
colored man upon whom that institution
ever conferred that degree.
Among the requests of George o.
Croker, millionaire of New Bedford,
Conn.,, are several to bis colored SER
wants as follows: John Freedom, 81 900;
Mrs. Marsh, 81 600; Mrs. Fannie Wash
ington, $500; James Cook, 5000.
The Colored High School of Louis
vile, KY, held it's annual commence
ment Monday, June 18th. The graduates
were Sarah w. Davis, valedictorian,
Richard G. Wrightson, salutatorian,
Louisa J !. Lightfoot, Jennie E. Apple
ton zerlina Thompson, F. Gertrude
Caldwell, Rebecca R. Taylor.
Mrs. Mary Stewart, Of Taliaferre
county, Ca, has invented car coupler
that is said to be simple and almost per-
feet. She says that the idea came to her
like dream, and she made model,
according to her vision, out of old
"OVster ems - Mrs Stewart uos +ha
first slave born to Alexander II. Steph-
ems.
Colored men of Cape Feare, N. c.,
lynched a white man the other day for
ontraging a colored girl. We are OPP
posed to lynch law, but the whites who
control the courts, judges and juries in
stituted it. Colored men who are great
imitators must find way to protect our
wives, mother, sisters and daughters
Negro American.
The following named students gradu-
ated from Gaines High School, Cincin-
natl, Ohio, yesterday: Misses Lille
Brown, E. P. Clark, Odessa Flowers,
Arizone Kyle, Mary E. Miller, Susie
Scott, Carrie L. Simonton, Leona B.
Trayis, Asbelion Wallace, Mary J. Ward !,
Ada White, and Messrs. ]. Fl. G. Casson,
Vim. II. Ferguson, Rebt. d. V. Troy,
Ed. ]. Howard, Clifford, J. Hickman,
Taswell r. Thompson, Samuel n. Bush.